Clients leaderboard.
Editors, terminals, desktop apps and assistants that connect to MCP servers. Browse all of them at /clients.
| # | Listing | Category | Stars / day | Stars | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Codex CLI OpenAI coding agent for the terminal with configurable MCP servers. | Developer tools | 237 | 127.9k | Apr 2025 |
| 2 | Gemini CLI Open source terminal agent from Google that uses Gemini models and MCP servers. | Developer tools | 200 | 107.2k | Apr 2025 |
| 3 | Cline Open-source coding agent available as an IDE extension, CLI, and SDK, with MCP support for external tools. | Developer tools | 85 | 69.9k | Jul 2024 |
| 4 | Qwen Code Open-source AI coding agent that runs in the terminal, with memory, skills, subagents and MCP server support for external tools. | Developer tools | 61 | 28.3k | Jun 2025 |
| 5 | Crush Terminal-based coding agent from Charm that supports Model Context Protocol servers over stdio, HTTP and SSE transports. | Developer tools | 57 | 28.5k | May 2025 |
| 6 | AutoGen Microsoft's multi-agent framework. McpWorkbench and mcp_server_tools wrap an MCP server and expose its tools to agents. | Developer tools | 54 | 61.3k | Aug 2023 |
| 7 | Kilo Code Open source coding agent extension for VS Code and JetBrains with MCP marketplace support. | Developer tools | 48 | 27.5k | Mar 2025 |
| 8 | Visual Studio Code Code editor with agent chat that can discover and invoke tools supplied by configured MCP servers. | Developer tools | 48 | 193.5k | Sep 2015 |
| 9 | Zed Collaborative code editor with agents and support for adding MCP servers through extensions or direct configuration. | Developer tools | 44 | 91.3k | Feb 2021 |
| 10 | smolagents Barebones library for agents that think in code; agents can use tools from any MCP server via ToolCollection.from_mcp. | Developer tools | 44 | 29.7k | Dec 2024 |
| 11 | LlamaIndex Data framework for LLM applications. McpToolSpec and BasicMCPClient connect to MCP servers and convert their tools into LlamaIndex function tools. | Developer tools | 37 | 52.4k | Nov 2022 |
| 12 | AgentScope Agent framework with agentic tool management over Python tools, MCP servers and skills. | Developer tools | 33 | 32.8k | Jan 2024 |
| 13 | Kimi CLI Terminal AI agent from Moonshot AI for software development tasks and shell operations; supports MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools. | Developer tools | 32 | 11.4k | Oct 2025 |
| 14 | Continue Open source AI coding assistant for IDEs and terminals with configurable MCP servers. | Developer tools | 29 | 36.1k | May 2023 |
| 15 | Agno Framework to build, run and manage agent platforms; agents can access live data and tools from MCP servers alongside built-in toolkits. | Developer tools | 26 | 42.6k | May 2022 |
| 16 | VoltAgent Open-source TypeScript AI agent framework; connects to Model Context Protocol servers without extra glue code. | Developer tools | 20 | 10.7k | Apr 2025 |
| 17 | Strands Agents Model-driven SDK for building AI agents in a few lines of code, with MCP, streaming and multi-agent patterns built in. | Developer tools | 17 | 8.7k | May 2025 |
| 18 | Mistral Vibe Mistral's open-source CLI coding assistant. MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers can be configured to extend Vibe's capabilities. | Developer tools | 17 | 5k | Dec 2025 |
| 19 | MCP Inspector Developer tool for inspecting and testing MCP servers; it connects to a server and lets you exercise its tools, resources and prompts. | Developer tools | 15 | 11k | Oct 2024 |
| 20 | CAMEL-AI Open-source multi-agent framework. Its MCPToolkit turns CAMEL agents into MCP clients that use tools from multiple MCP servers. | Developer tools | 14 | 17.8k | Mar 2023 |
| 21 | mcp-agent Python framework for building agents with the Model Context Protocol using composable patterns; any MCP server connects without custom adapters. | Developer tools | 13 | 8.6k | Dec 2024 |
| 22 | Forge AI pair programmer for the terminal working with Claude, GPT, Gemini and other models; its MCP feature lets agents communicate with external tools and services. | Developer tools | 11 | 7.6k | Dec 2024 |
| 23 | LangChain4j Java library for LLM applications that supports the Model Context Protocol to communicate with MCP-compliant servers that provide and execute tools. | Developer tools | 11 | 13.2k | Jun 2023 |
| 24 | Haystack Open-source AI orchestration framework; its MCP integration connects external tools and services to Haystack pipelines and agents. | Developer tools | 11 | 26.6k | Nov 2019 |
| 25 | Chainlit Python framework for building conversational AI apps; applications connect to MCP servers over SSE, Streamable HTTP or stdio. | Developer tools | 9.6 | 12.5k | Mar 2023 |
| 26 | Koog JVM (Kotlin and Java) framework for building AI agents; integrates Model Context Protocol tools into agents. | Developer tools | 8.8 | 4.6k | May 2025 |
| 27 | GitHub Copilot CLI GitHub Copilot's coding agent for the terminal. It ships with the GitHub MCP server by default and supports custom MCP servers to extend its capabilities. | Developer tools | 8.2 | 11.2k | Jan 2023 |
| 28 | Spring AI Spring framework for AI applications. Its MCP Client Boot Starter auto-configures MCP client functionality over STDIO, SSE and Streamable HTTP. | Developer tools | 8.0 | 9.5k | Jun 2023 |
| 29 | Genkit Open-source AI framework from Google. The Genkit MCP plugin consumes MCP tools, prompts and resources as a client via createMcpHost or createMcpClient. | Developer tools | 7.3 | 6.5k | Apr 2024 |
| 30 | CodeCompanion.nvim AI coding plugin for Neovim with support for the Model Context Protocol so MCP server tools can be used in chat. | Developer tools | 6.8 | 6.9k | Dec 2023 |
| 31 | fast-agent Framework and CLI to code, build and evaluate agents with MCP, ACP and A2A support; connects to MCP servers with the /connect command. | Developer tools | 6.3 | 3.9k | Jan 2025 |
| 32 | Theia IDE Open-source, vendor-neutral IDE from the Eclipse Foundation with built-in AI features; its MCP integration lets users configure, start and use MCP servers. | Developer tools | 6.2 | 21.7k | Feb 2017 |
| 33 | LangChain MCP Adapters Lightweight wrapper that makes Model Context Protocol tools compatible with LangChain and LangGraph agents. | Developer tools | 6.1 | 3.7k | Feb 2025 |
| 34 | MCPJam Open-source testing and evaluation platform for MCP server developers; connects to and chats with multiple MCP servers using frontier models. | Developer tools | 4.5 | 2.2k | May 2025 |
| 35 | BeeAI Framework Framework for building production-ready AI agents in Python and TypeScript, with Model Context Protocol tool support. | Developer tools | 4.4 | 3.4k | Aug 2024 |
| 36 | mcphub.nvim MCP client for Neovim that integrates MCP servers into the editing workflow and exposes them to chat plugins such as CodeCompanion and Avante. | Developer tools | 3.0 | 1.8k | Feb 2025 |
| 37 | mcp-cli Command-line interface for interacting with Model Context Protocol servers, with chat and interactive modes across LLM providers. | Developer tools | 3.0 | 2k | Nov 2024 |
| 38 | oterm Terminal client for LLMs with MCP server support, using an mcpServers config compatible with Claude Desktop and Cursor. | Developer tools | 2.2 | 2.4k | Oct 2023 |
| 39 | Dolphin MCP Python library and CLI that connects to any number of configured MCP servers and makes their tools available to any LLM, local or remote. | Developer tools | 0.9 | 533 | Mar 2025 |
| 40 | mcp.el Emacs client for the Model Context Protocol that connects to MCP servers and exposes their tools to Emacs LLM packages. | Developer tools | 0.9 | 591 | Jan 2025 |